Sun Microsystems wants to send Java closer to the open-source world, yet keep it safe from harm. It will modify its licenses to make access to the Java source code easier, the Santa Clara, Calif ...

Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format) to facilitate better-defined encoding, under a plan afoot in the OpenJDK Java community.

When translating Java source code, the compiler needs to know the definition of types it has not yet seen. This includes your application classes and core classes like java.lang.StringBuffer.

Google has open-sourced the Java Source code for Google App Engine Standard environment, the production runtime, App Engine APIs, and the local sdk. Initially released in 2018, Google App Engine was ...

News Java on VS Code 2022 Roadmap Includes Wider Path to Cloud Native By David Ramel January 26, 2022 In the coming year, Microsoft plans to emphasize cloud native development as it adds features and ...

Java advantages Here are the top 10 modern advantages of Java, the JVM and the JDK: Java is open source. Java is community driven. Java is fast and high-performance. Java is easy to learn. Java is ...

However, there is still lots of work to be done to improve the standard of open source security, and Log4j stands as a testament to the damage that vulnerable java-based components can reap.

News Microsoft Announces Built-in Support for Lombok in VS Code for Java By David Ramel July 19, 2022 The latest update to Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for Java source code editor ...

Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...